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Oh, yes–you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side–unfortunately; but right it has not.

Henrik Ibsen

To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?
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Crave Happiness Possession Revolution Simplicity World
An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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Live Myself Poem Responsibility Romantic
Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Calm Certain Happiness Innocent
If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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Lying Myself Writing
The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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Business Goodness Poet Starve
But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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Live Man Science Style
Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. There must be Ghosts all the country over, as thick as the sand of the sea. We are, one and all, so pitifully afraid of the light.
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Country Ghost Light Myself Newspaper
Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
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Build Castle Easy
It’s a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.
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Act Beautiful Courage Known Liberty
What’s to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.
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Cold Healing Sick Sound
The man-at-arms is the only man.
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Distance Man
Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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Darkness Existence Fight Force Ourselves
The strong must learn to be lonely.
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Learning Lonely Strong
The costliness of keeping friends does not lie in what one does for them, but in what one, out of consideration for them, refrains from doing.
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Friendship Lying Oneself
I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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Equality Myself Sacred
Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Ability Different Independent Oneself People Responsibility Sing

Oh, yes–you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side–unfortunately; but right it has not.

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Oh, yes–you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side–unfortunately; but right it has not.

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